The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a unique judicial body, the Student Honor Court, which rules on all cases of student misbehavior at the university. But the faculty council voted to strip the student court of its ability to hear cases relating to sexual assault. It was feared that the student court wouldn’t be able to adjust its evidence standards from “beyond a reasonable doubt” to “a preponderance of evidence,” as called for by the federal Office of Civil Rights.
Under the new standard, a court need only find that sexual assault was more likely than not to have happened in order to convict a perpetrator.
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